Director - SAP Analytics Cloud; SAC - Planning - TC - UKI

At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence.

We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go.

Join EY and help to build a better working world.

Technology Consulting | Director | SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) - Planning

Our EY EPM team is dedicated to helping clients unlock business value by harnessing the latest SAP innovations. We’re looking for directors who are both tech‑savvy and business‑minded, with a genuine passion for connecting SAP technology to real‑world business challenges. We are looking for technologists who are driven to deliver solutions that truly transform clients’ FP&A operations.

• Act as senior delivery lead across complex SAC programmes focused on financial planning, ensuring successful outcomes across scope, quality, timeline, and budget
• Provide oversight and challenge on solution architecture, ensuring alignment with client enterprise data strategies
• Manage senior client stakeholders (CFO, CIO, Head of Data/FP&A), acting as a trusted advisor
• Resolve critical delivery risks and escalations across work streams
• Ensure integration across finance, data, and technology domains (e.g. SAC Planning, BDC, Datasphere/Databricks/Snowflake)

• Own and contribute to sales pipelines, leading pursuits and proposals for EPM
• Shape client propositions around FP&A Transformation
• Lead bid teams, including solutioning, pricing, and commercial structuring
• Drive revenue growth and margin performance across engagements
• Identify and originate new opportunities within existing client accounts

• Define and evolve the EPM offering, including go-to-market propositions
• Lead development of reusable assets
• Drive innovation in areas such as AI‑enabled planning and predictive analytics

• Build and develop the SAC capability, including mentoring junior colleagues
• Support recruitment and workforce planning aligned to growth strategy
• Establish delivery standards, methods, and best practices across the practice
• Foster a high-performance culture focused on quality, collaboration, and continuous improvement

• Represent the firm externally in client meetings, industry forums, and with alliance partners
• Contribute to thought leadership
• Position the practice as a leader in SAC and SAP data & analytics solutions

Key skills & experience required:

• Strong experience delivering SAP Analytics Cloud solutions, focusing on planning use cases (multiple full project life cycles)
• Deep understanding of business finance processes and how SAC can be leveraged to support these
• Ability to create complex system architecture
• Proven track record of leading large-scale transformation programmes
• Demonstrated commercial acumen, including sales, pricing, and margin management
• Strong stakeholder management at executive level
• Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams across functional and technical domains

• Industry expertise (energy / defence / retail / life sciences)
• Experience with other EPM tools (SAP BPC / Tagetik / Lumel / Pigment)
• Experience with consolidation tools (SAP Group Reporting / Tagetik)
• SAP analytics experience (SAP BW / Datasphere / BDC)

We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well‑being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus we offer:

• Support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around
• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you

If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

EY | Building a better working world.